The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1864. gr. ROEBUCK is busy enough during this recess, but his speeches, short or long, are always worth attending to, and his discourse at the Sheffield Cutler's Feast was no exception to the rule. There was great truth in his observations on the impor tant position occupied by a Member of Parliament; and when, in his quaint way, Mr. ROEBUCK took himself to task, as it were, for his temerity in long years past in entering the House, many must have acknowledged that it is an error often committed. Few among those who so eagerly exert themselves to obtain seats in the Legislature really reflect upon the nature of the work before them. All their de sire is to gratify ambition, achieve distinction, ob tain a position of prominence, or fulfil a hundred other desires. The hon. and learned Member for Sheffield has learned wisdom in his long career in that House, where he occupies so distinguished a place as an orator. He tells us that the House of Commons forms the most important part of the Government of this country, and how true is that definition of it. It would be well if they, who this session so wantonly trifled with their respon sibilities and threw away their chance of rightly influencing events for the sake of party and the love of place, were to ponder a little upon the menest and emphatic language in this oration be fore us. " Wherever the name of England is heard, the influence of the House of Commons pre vails, wherever men are working for liberty there the English House of Commons is cited, and wher ever they are endeavouring to free themselves from the fetters which commerce has imposed upon them there the voice of the English House of Commons is heard." This is not exaggeration, lent simple fact, yet surely such an assertion carries with it many solemn reflections. It is not the province of an assembly possessed of such awful powers for good or for evil to waste them by misuse or abuse them by selfish and careless manage ment. Perhaps nothing nowadays is more to be regretted than the supineness which has stolen over the popular branch of the Legislature. Its fire seems extinguished, or very nearly so, and in lieu of the spirit and energy of olden times the benches seem occupied by Ministers who will sacrifice every thing to keep their places, and members who count all loss gain if they preserve their seats. It is well that a stirring speaker like Mr. ROEBNICK should come forward and tell the case plainly before those who may affect to be too ignorant to know by in stinct or too inexperienced to find out for themselves, the decadence into which they are lapsing. It is true that he who utters such glaring words and high phrases often falls short of the mark himself; how many may bs great adepts in finding out the faults of others who seem unable to prevent them selves from committing serious blunders. There i was wit and wisdom in the remarks, boldly uttered and sedulously put forth by Mr. ROEBUCK. He declared that there was much to learn before a man could be considered a legislator. Other pro fessions require certain forms to be gone through, " but it would seem a legl3lator is what I have heard of the gig -driver, it comes by instinct." This is not what should be, though it would be difficult for those indignant at the supposition to disclaim the correctness of it, or deny its likelihood to fact. The three things that Mr ROEBUCK considers as essen. tial to success in a member of the House are very likely characteristics to be required by all in that important capacity. He mentions first, appropriate knowledge; next, honesty ; and thirdly, courage. The absence of any one will nullify the other two, we are told; and most probably will be the case when the expe riment is made. " I found that yon could have perfect knowledge, that you could have a desire to do well, but that, if you had not courage to face the difficulties, the thing fell before you," How often bas this been proved in life—public, private, and political! The lack of firmness has made the possessor of great and glorious gifts the tool of those who did not comprehend his high inspirations nor fathom his deep resolves. There is no quality so useful in life as decision, and its absence makes the dictates of conscience go by unheeded, and th e warnings of reason altogether disregarded. In the House of Commons, for instance, no man can achieve eminence if he cannot originate; he may be the favourite of the day, the idol of the hour, but he never can really influence men in the struggle nor impre3s his memory on the mind of his gene ration. It was well said in " Cooingdby," in an allusion being made to the age not believing in great It is a relief after the painful details of uproar and riot that have latterly reached us from the sister kingdom, to find the principal news from Ireland relate to agriculture. The annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society opened on Wednesday at Sligo, attracting large numbers to the spot. The extortionate demands of the householders for tem porary accommodation militated a little against the' success of the affair, a guinea a night being esteemed a somewhat extravagant charge. That trouble, like other troubles, having been encountered and left be hind, the visitors had cause to congratulate them , selves oa the favourable weather under whose aus pices the exhibition opened. For a day or two pre viously that part of the country had been sustaining the reputation of the " Isle of Showers," and some misgivings had been felt on the score of a threatened outbreak of rioters. Due precautions were taken to avoid any disturbance, and happily the alarm proved to be groundless. The show itself was of fair average merit, having no specially noticeable features excepting that the show of horses did not Come up to the requirements of the.country. Gene rally speaking the stock of horses owned by the farmers and in the vicinity is poor, and greatly needs improvement. The most inte resting aspect of the show is the fact of its being held in a remote part of Ireland. Agricultural exhibitions have long lost their novelty among us. They are extending now to very retired districts, which start a society for the encourage ment of their own industry and an ineentive to their own energies. But there still remains a great deal to be done in this respect for Ireland, and the more such shows and exhibitions are encouraged the better. No people are more sensitive to praise, none more sensible of the distinction of success, and con sequently they would not be disposed to under value the rewards of such competition. The more the attention of the people is turned in such pacific directions the better for the happiness and prosperity of Ireland, and of all connected with her, but the people have undoubtedly much to contend against, and we must not underrate their difficulties. We must not fall into the mistake of most moralists who make goodness and respectability hopelessly dull. The good little boy of the story books seldom suc ceeds is arresting the attenticn of the juvenile reader, his interest is excited by the adventures which befall the refractory but daring spirit that is held up as warning. In our dealings with the quick witted, excitable Milesians we should guard against enforcing that dreary monotony which to Englishman is less tedious, less oppressive, so as to convince them that they need not lay down all hope of diversion and variety with their shillelaghs, and that amusement and snterest may be found in other places than Donnybrook Fair. The reports received from different quarters by the Cotton Supply Association continue on the whole to be most encouraging. The experiment has been made in the most widely separated mine tries by people of various nations under different forms of government. With the singular inconsis tency often perceptible in the administration of British affairs—thanks, more especially, to the deadly influence of routine—our own possessions, scattered though they are throughout the most varied zones, have not been the most prominent in the competition. Egypt has outstripped India, and the republics of South America have set an example of promptness and energy to many of our depen dencies. Some valuable information was read at the last weekly meeting respecting the growth of cotton in itolehara, It seems that large quantities are exported from thence into Russia, and that the amount has been yeaely increasing; and this year the prospects are so good that it is reckoned that no less than twenty million pounds, of the value of £1,650,000, are expected to be famished. It is satisfactory to find the Government of Bombay making application for Peruvian seed for experi mental cultivation in Scinde and the surround ing districts. The Indian empire embraces so wide a range of locality, and cl i mate, that there is room for a long course of experiments if the authorities had energy or enterprise enough to take the matter properly i n hand. The French are wiser, and are making great efforts to encourage the cultivation of cotton 1 4 Algeria, offering premiums and affording every inducement to the colonist to grow it. linfortu• nately, the heavy charges la transport, and the uncertainty as to prices, damp the spirit of specula-. Lion in the colonists, who otherwise have a fair prospect, as the soil is good and the climate favour able. The produce of 1853 was 879,8001b5. of cheap cotton, and this year from two to three times that quantity is looked for. We are glad to find some intending English emigrants making application for seed, which they intend to experiment upon in Queensland, whither they go with a view to cotton cultivation. Our energies must not slacken with the lessening of the need, since when the cultiva tion is fairly established the expenses will of course be greatly reduced, and there is no reason why there should not be competition in the cotton mar ket as well as elsewhere. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A BETTING MAN.— Yesterday a most determined attempt at self-de e at ruetion was made by Captain Jervois, a gentleman well known in Spo rting circles, at his residence, Nutford-place, Edgware-road. On his servant taking him up a letter about 9 o'clo c k h e found his master lying across the bed with the blood flowin g f rom ta, a fearful wound which be had inflicted on his and th e his throat w i th a razor. Surgical assistance was ob tained, 'dressed, but it is doubtful if he will survive. Extensive losses on recent racing events in duced the rash attempt. With the fifth number of " Our Mutual Friend" the first Book is completed. And—out of all this same first book of Boz's last story— , commend us to the two closing chapters of it ! Chap ter the sixteenth that is and chapter the seven. teenth ! Commend us, especially and beyond all, to the sixteenth ! The chapter introduc ing us to poor old (very old) Betty Higden— to her great grandchild Johnny, the looked-for Orphan, at length discovered, by Mrs Boffin, in the flesh, and very chubbily in the flesh, too, as it hap pens! Nay, introducing us, besides these (this won derful chapter) to a delightful long boy, ycleped Sloppy—and to two little children (two very little children) called respectively Toddles and Poddles. The scene, peopled by these very old and very young creatures, is extremely humble, a mere cottage room in a bye-lane down a back street in muddy Brent ford. Extremely humble, but extremely clean— sweet and fresh as Mrs. Betty Higden's house•room is, with a well - scrubbed brick floor, and with plenty of fresh linen, then and there undergoing pressure in the ecrooping mangle worked by Sloppy. This latter individual (already mentioned) Master or Mister Sloppy being described as " one of those shambling male human creatures born tobe indiscreetly candidin the revelation of buttons —every button he had about him glaring at the public to a quite preternatural extent." Other= wise-defined—m Full-Private Number One in the Awkward ..3quad of the rank and file of life, was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to the Colours." Although as yet Sloppy has never once opened his big mouth — except, time and again, to roar with laughter and for one brief while to howl sympathetially up on Betty Higden's breaking down for a moment and having a good cry—we are, nevertheless, fully impressed with a conviction that Sloppy will turn oat to be not only "Full Private Number One," as aforesaid, but that he will stand forth conspicuously, and hold his own thoroughly well, among that strange and wondrous throng of origi nals—the Boz Characters. Then, again—Toddles and Poddles ! Who but the creator of Paul Dom. bey, and Little Nell, and Tiny Tim—who but the delineator of David Copperfield in his childhood, of Peepy playing at wild beasts under the piano, and of ever so many more little children, of all ages, from Tilly Slowboy's charge (in arms) upwards—who, in a word, but Charles Dickens, could ever have dreamt of three such little creatures as Toddles and Peddles, and Johnny ! When Dame Betty Higden, the last-mentioned little creature's great-grand. mother, gets him (Johnny) up into her lap, while having a talk with that dear, kind, good old soul, Mrs. Boffin, who has come there to adopt the orphan—Betty, contenting herself at first with kissing Johnny's fat, dimpled hand by times, as she prattles on to her visitor— when, we say, old Betty, at last, (Johnny sitting there in her lap, "with his chin tucked in and his lips pouting, concentrating his blue eyes on the visitors, and shadowing them from observation with a dimpled arm ") when Old Betty comes to taking one of his fresh fat hands in her withered right, and falls to gently beating it on her withered left—Ah, well, a point is then soon reached (as we read on) when the great Master-Humorist of our age—of any age for that matter—has lull and absolute command (as he has so often had before !) over our tears. " And now," says Mrs. Boffin—just before Old Betty takes to gently beating one of Johnny's fresh fat hands on her withered left,—" And now," says Mrs Boffin, "concerning Johnny." " Yes, ma'am," says Old Betty, beating on, "concerning Johnny." " If you trust the dear child to me," said Mrs Boffin, with a face inviting trust, "he shall have the best of homes, the best of care, the best of education, the beat of friends. Please God, I will be a true good mother to him 1" " I am thankful to you, ma'am, and the dear child would be thankful if he was old enough to understand" —still beating the little hand upon her own, "I wouldn't stand in the dear child's light, not if I had all my life be fore me, instead of a very little of it. But I hope you won't take it ill that I cleave to the child closer than wards can tell, for he's the last living thing left me." "Take it ill, my dear soul? la it likely And you sq tender of him as to bring him home here I" " I have seen" said Betty, still with that. light beat upon her hard rough hand "so many of theni on my lap. And they are all gone but this one lam ashamed to seem so selfish, but I don't really mean it, It'll be the maktiig of his fortune, and he'll be a gentleman when lam dead. I— I— don't know what comes over me. I— try against it Don't notice me I" The light beat stopped, the resolute mouth gave way, and the fine, strong old face broke up into weak ness and tears. Here it is that Sloppy, as already related, lifts up his voice and b - ellows, terrifying Toddles and Paddles into a rear by so doing, and causing Johnny by sheer sympathy to become a prey to despair! " The absurdity of the situation" at this climax of it, at once, effectually, as our author remarks, " put its pathos to the rout." Toddles' and Poddles' buccanneering expeditions, hand-in-hand across the floor, across country, one might almost Elv a in an attempt to bear Johnny, " crowing, into capti vity and slavery "--the fluctuations of this game —every casual touch (each given with such a tender hand!) in the description —all is, jilst simply in one word, charming. Another of those delicate limnings of childhood and little children—that we read— through a loving mist of tears (half of fun half of tenderness)—in the works of our Great Novelist— descriptions that, once read, we ever after wards bear among our most cherished recollections. Incidents of varinos kinds, some of them of con siderable ituportance in the development of the plot of " Our Muinal Friend," are here related. Inci dents, for example, of such importance as the dis covery that it is Gaffer Hexam's dead body that tangs drowned at the end of his own tow- line—as the appointment of John Arrowamith as Mr Boffin's secretary—as the removal of the Boffins into their grand fashionable resi. dente at the West-end, with all its consequences, in the shape of a dismal swamp of begging•letter correspondence ! But, tempting though the last mentioned theme especially is to delete upon, we can give not a thought at this moment to anything but the little children. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON.—" The title of Duke de Chatellerault," says the Gazette de France, "which has just been confirmed to the Duke of Hamilton, is one of the small number of those which the French kings had created in favour of some noble foreign families, in order to perpetuate the remem brance of great services, or the participation in some famous event. James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, son of a Scottish peer, acd of the eldest daughter of James 11, of Scotland, was by his mother presumptive heir of Queen Mary Stuart. The Parliament had already de clared him governor and protector of the young Queen, second person in the kingdom.' It is in that double title the Earl of Arran negotiated and concluded the marriage of Mary Stuart and the Dauphin of France, afterwards Francis 11. King Henry 11. gave him as a recom pense for that happy intervention the dukedom of Cho' rauit, to enjoy it, he and his posterity, male ar ferrate . The y o unger branch of the House of Hamiltr.da c-ame down' in direct line to the present day, and is sl Scotland by the Marquis of Abercor - all represented i n became eatino 4. The elder branch about the end of ' the House of Douglas, ara- .ne seventeenth century i n . b all and de Chatellerault. Th e for the D u kes of Hair:to -Leh of which wa s su b s ti tu t e d transmission of the t had been recogni ..cle of Duke de Chat e ll erau lt i n F rance .4e4.1 in the House of Douglas by Charles X. in 1826, in ' , pits of the reclamations of the Marquis of Abercord. The young Duke of Hamilton was born in 1845." T BUR iEN BURIED ALlvE,—Yesterday after noon, shortly before 4 o'clock, a sad accident, which has terminated fatally to two men and serious injury to two others, c.ccurred on the new line of railway now in course of co:istruction by the South-Esstern Railway Company between Deptford and Lewisham. It appears that at the time stated a party of excavators were at work cutting away a portion of the chalk embankment, and had just completed their work when, without any warning, a mass weighing nearly 100 tons suddenly fell, burying four of the unfortunate fellows, and others narrowly escaping a similar fate. Such was the weight of the falling earth that a 1 ruck standing on a aide line of rail was completely smashed. The men immediately set to work to rescue their com panions, and messengers were despatched for medical as sistance. After a short time two of the unfortunate men were reached, still alive, and having been attended to by two medical gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood, they wcra convened to Guy's Hospital. The other cwo men, named Thos. Willbourne and Samuel Brown, bosh of whom were married, on being got out were pronounced dead, and their bodies were removed to the pariah dead.hoase to await the coroner's inquiry. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, SEPT. 1. The Ellora will leave here at 10 p.m. to-day for Marseilles, and the Ceylon, at 3 a. r. to-morrow, for Southampton. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Delta, from Southampton, on the 20th Aug., reached Malta on the 29th, at 8 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The Syria, from Marseilles, on the 28th August, arrived at 11 p.m., on the 30th, and left at 4 aim, on the 31st for Alexandria. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT 2. The Constitutionnel of this morning contains an article, signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, reviewing the language used by M.M. Rouher, Rouland, and Behic, at the opening of the Councils General. The writer says—" In view of these manifestations of the ideas.of the Government who can deny to the Empire the spirit of progress and initiative. In a restricted sphere of a department as in the wider sphere of a State we find the Imperial policy animated by the desire of most completely and surely developing principles in which we discover the same thought of giving to France all the bene fits of progress and saving her from all excesses of revolution." BOURSE, Sept. I.—The market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been done at an improvement, Threes being now quoted at 661 r. 50c. Mobilier have advanced to 1,015 fr. Railway Market firm. The market continued im. proving to the close, and .eft off as follows : Italian Loan 67 70 Do. end month 67 60 Ditto Threes New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — -- Home Debt Deferred 4t per Cents. 94 75 Do. eRd month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 65 Credit Mobilier.... 1020 Do. end m0nth....1020 Bank Shares 3390 Credit Foncier 1225 Roman RAIL Cash. Account. 592 50 .. 892 988 75 923 75 .. 930 640 .. 638 75 525 493 75 .. 495 348 75 347 50 435 .. 440 540 538 75 407 50 .. 403 75 487 50 .. 487 50 205 205 Orlear s Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern .. Western Eastern .. Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona .51[R. ALFRED MELLON'S C ONCERT S EVERY' EVENING, at sight. .110 Y . XL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. hi. 4 Evening (Friday), a Selection from Rossini' s STA AT THE " FAUST " SELECTION. Mdlle. C. Patti, Mdlle. Krebs, Mme. F. Hucidart Mr. Cr Perren, Mr. Patey, Mr. Levy, Pflqlle, and Ali Be Sou site. Orchestra of One Hundred Performers, and Band of' the Coldstream Guards. LFRED MELLON'. C on ductor, Mr. A Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls. and Amphitheatre, One rhilhng ; Dress Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, £1 15. and, Vs. M. is open from 10 till 5 . The Box OfficeSatu-day), a Grand Vo lunteer Night. Mr. To-morrow ( 13antley, f o r this night oniy. On Monday aext, a Verdi Night. 'The Beethoven Night will be repeated on Thursday, Sep tember S. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE...-. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Yining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOUD LUCK. Faddy O'lta.fferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE TEIEE.T3 OF LONDON. Messrs. J. w. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Vining, H. Mellon ; F or re- ter. Mrs. H en ry Marston, Miss Emma Rainett, and Miss F Jany Gwynne. NE W THEATRE-BO YAL, ADELPHI.— S , ale Prow-tutor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, MY WIFE'S MAID. Mr. J. L. Toole and Airs. Alfred Mellon. Followed by A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, B►llington, and Mr-. Stirling. After which, THE HEN AND CHICKENS. Messrs.Bil tiagton, Yhillips, Eburne; Mrs. String, Miss H. Simms• To conclude with THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. 3. L. Toole, F. Bed:ord, R. YhilAii a, and Miss WoolgAr. Commence at 7. -------- COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Rezent-street, have now in stock a iriety of WASHING SILIC.. DRFAshs, suttatle for the co.autry and seaside, and at the cleaxing - out of only 6d. the dress JAY'S, 247,249, B.nd 251, Regent-street. TOLA CK SI LKS _ The price of Silks in the raw j_Y material has already f sen 15 per cent. , and it w ill soon leach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, iavite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock the y ha ve on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able to as ; but the same qualities will naturally 132. more costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, anial, Kegent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' ...... .238. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. Tc,p ............ 225. „ D ee p 2ls. „ spell screened ani delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, south Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole :gent. THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ca p. 1,53 had Every Evening of G. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Evening by II ENItY BROOKS, Newspaper agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. III(}] 1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TiLIS DA7.—Morning, 2h. 50m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. ro . A roaßovr.-Morning, 3h. 20m.—Afternoon. 3ti. 33m. gb :p 4;.,44 t 1• •"I men, that the spirit of the age was the very thing that a great man changed. Mr, ROEBUCK se ems to take a lofty view of the position of a member of the House of Commons, and we are indebted to those gifted with his powers of oratory - for using their facility of expression, and employing their foresight, experience, and description to p•at forward plain truths in a striking fashion, and to reveal the high purposes of every-day existence and the great ends which should be worked out amid the heat and the turmoil of public life and political careers. It is refreshing now•a•days to find public speakers discoursing on such things, for it is too much the fashion amid the hurry-scurry of existence to look around and not before, rot to raLct upon the consequences of things, but merely to study the expediency doctrine of putting off the evil day, and only providing for the exigencies of the moment. Such a course of proceedings has done more than anything to de• teriorate the character, injure the influence, and stultify the efforts of the Legislature, than any think else of late years. The Parliament of England has not always had much time to encounter, " It has been cradled in adventure and nursed in good men's dread." It has to defy the engroachments of the Crown and to resist the tyranny of the nobles. It was hard to contend occasionally with the infatu. ated desires of the people it represented, but still it had triumphed over all; it has shared in adversity, but prosperity is sometimes the most dangerous of the two. It behoves the real leaders of the house, the men of thought, genius, and energy, to warn the indifferent and rouse the indolent, so that it may not lose the lustre of its fame and be shorn of its hard earned reputation that have come down from sires of renown, and should not be thrown away by degenerate sons. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864 LITERATURE, Charles Dickens's New Serial Story. Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens. No. V. Chapman and Hall. THE CONGRESS AT MALINES. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT) The meetings of the sections of the Congress were resumed yesterday at nine a.m., and on visit ing again the fifth section, which had hitherto been busy with the questions relating to the press, I found that the members bad proceeded to the part of their programme which related to religious freedom in general, and the right of Catholics to have separate cemeteries in particular. It is truly scandalous that in a C a tholic country, the men i n pcwer from mere irr e li g ious feeling should cinder their religions count r y m en from enjoy inr-6. one of the earliest and dearest ad v antages which Christians ever possessed, that of being burieril e i n consecrate d ground. Still I found that fu eteral subject treated in so funeral a manner by the local speakers, that I sought out the hall where the fourth section on Christian Art eves F,6Bembled, and heard there a discussion on Churcih decoration, in which, although a great deal of ' Amateur talk took place, still we had the gre:e advantage of hearing speak with the same e;oility on that subject as he does on poli tical 1339 .cters, Herr Augustus Reichensperger, the reprc,eentative of Cologne in the Prussian Parlia ment, and the leader therein of the Catholic party. The recent decorations in the Cathe dral of Amiens were severely criticized by M. Bordeaux, a well-known writer on Christian art. The meeting of the sections ended at twelve, after which the greater part of the-French visitors went in a body to the Archbishop's palace, to pay a visit to their illustrious countryman, M. Dupanloup. At 3 p.m. the general meeting began, and the hall, capable of containing 4,000 persons, was filled to overflowing to listen to the Bishop of Orleans, who was announced to speak. Several well-known personages were repplanded as they entered to take their seats, and especially General Delanoy, a recent victim of tlie liberal Government of Belgium, hav ing beer placed on the retiring list for having pre sumal to stand as a candidate of the opposition. Tile celebrated French Jesuit preacher, Pere Felix, was loudly cheered. After several announcements made by the Secre tary-General, I\l- Ducpotiaux, the Cardinal and Bishops entered the hall. The whole of the Belgian episcopate was there present. M. Ducpetiaux communicated to the assembly the answer to the telegram sent to Cardinal Antonelli, and trans mitted by him to his Holiness at Castel Fidardo. The Holy Father, trusting in the spirit of good will and rectitude of intention of the Congress, bestows upon its members the Apostolic bl ess ing they have asked. The Bishop of ORLEANS then ascended thelplate form, and began his long address standing in front of it, sitting down after his exor dium, and resuming the standing attitude towards the end. His fine, tall, and venerable ap pearance was greatly heightened by his purple ecclesiasti ca l d ress , co nsisti ng o f cassoc k an d c l oa k. His address was a dmirably d e liver e d i n a fi ne clear voice, and a most appropriate mixture of calm and energy, and lasted during the whole of the time alloted to th e meet i ng , conc l u di ng at a quar t er to six, having lasted two hours and a half, with out the least fl agg ing in the interest of the hearers or the power s of the ora t or . " I s h ou ld h a ve a heart of ice," he said,"not to feel the flame which burns in your hearts, not to be move d at t h e gen erous beating of so many Catholic hearts who cannot hear the names of Christ, of His Church, and of His Vicar uttered without bursting into applause. How charming it was for me yesterday to hear of your invincible t rust i n your i n stitutions, and I felt immediat e l y reassure d. I thought, pa.edon me, to find you i n sadness, an d I c ame te e om you. But you are earnest Christian a , Who know that struggling is the essential r' enditi • e on of Chris tian life. The Church on ~ drth is called the Chu rch militant. It will wa le shall find the ' be in the other world that we th ere f ore . Chur c h t r iumphant. Chr i st ians, quer , - , as such, may b e killed but never con r ed. You ar e i n no way d own cast. St. Augue- Eine asked the Christians of his t ime, who were saddened by th e i nundation o f t h e barbarians who came to besiege even his ep i sco pal city of Hippo, whether th e y h a d not been ma d e Christians to en dure affli c ti on ? W e should therefore be militant and yet p ru d en t • Not prudent according to the sense of pusillanimous men, but p r udent in thereal sense of that c ar di na l virtue, a n epithet which be comes it the m ore i n the prese nce of your primate. Be prudent. B e prudent i n th e s ense in which Christ spoke, when he recommended his disciples to have the simplicit y o f the d ove . St. Chrysostom says, "As long as we are s h ee p w e conquer, if we become wolves w e are conquered. Struggle is eternal. You have been baptized not to flourish, but to be prudent. We all have, not enemies per haps, hut adve rsar i es . An d h ow t o overcome them with all prudence we must h ave recourse to charity. The Abbe Libermann, the founder of that congrega tion of .oissionari es w h o di e t h e death of martyrdom from pestilential c li mate, to rescue the Africans from , the darkness of paganism, was ones met in the streets of Paris by a man who raised his hand against him, saying, " Priest ! oh, if you knew how I hate you." "Friend," answered the priest, if you knew how I love you, for Christ's sake." These words struck the man so that he embraced the priest, and in that sacerdotal embrace his heart was changed, and he beeame converted. I have been invited by your Cardinal to treat of an important question, as sacred as it is practical and useful—popular education, with its contingent questions of professional teaching and freedom of teaching. On these points we may easily agree with the adversaries of the Church. There are two secondary points of the education question, which are its gratuitous and obligatory chae rectors, which we have to contest. The Church claims specially the right of found ing schools, and that in virtue of the commission she received from her Divine founder. "Go and teach," he said to her, and she has ever since gone on, never stopping as long as schools had to be founded. The first Councils ordered priests to be schoolmasters, There still exists a pastoral of Theodule, Bishop of Orleans in the ninth century, in which he bids his priests to attend personally to the schooling of children. What, then, can be the worth of the pretensions of the libercitres— not liberals, I say, for, like Felix de Merode, 1 cannot call our adversaries liberals any more than a mardtre (stepmother) can be called a mother. The name of liberals in such a case is not French. Fenelon and Bossuet are my true liberals. France and Belgium are united in language, as they are sisters in Christ. I wish that, being what you are, our souls remain ever united in devotion to Christ and His Vicar, the Holy Father. But now let us trace up the career of the Church in her efforts in behalf of popular education. We can go back to the documents of every century —say the Bth, 7th, or 6th even. In 589 the Coun• cils of Narbonne, and later, those of Lateran, order that priests should go and instruct the children in their districts, and that not only in the villages (per vicos), but even in the hamlets or detached farms (per villas). At the very time when Voltaire speke of certain classes as ignorant blackguards (grueux z:gnorants), who were not to be taught (pion n'enseigne pas), a priest of the diocese of Rheims, the Venerable De la Salle, was founding a religious order of schoolmasters in France, and the Pope of that time, the great Benedict XIV,, blessed and confirmed this order, and wrote— " Ignorance is the origin of all evil, especially among the industrious classes." In this nineteenth century two brothers of the name of Lamenais made them selves celebrated. The one, on whose unhappy end I will not dwell, made a great noise but left no disciple ; the other established schools in Senegal, in the isle of Bourbon, in the West Indies, for the education of the children of the Negro slaves. And now the zeal of our missionaries leads them every where to establish at the7same time churches and schools, The letters of Saint Francis Xavier testify to this constant pursuit of founding both churches and schools lat the same time. And the society which now has enlisted in its ranks, the children of Belgium, as well as those of France and other Catholic countries, is that of the holy childhood, which keeps up schools for Chinese foundlings. And, then, we are told that there is a prejudice among religious men against popular in struction. We deem some certainly dangerous; but, then, only when it is given by bad teachers, and I repeat, with the eloquent orator you heard last year, M. Cochin, " the worst teacher of all is ignorance." I bless the progress of inventions, and especially that which allows me to come and see you here, and to return to Orleans, without loss of time and detri ment to my charge, but I feel that the more these material inventions are developed and multiplied the, more need there is of a moral restriction. The ~,arch of competition gives us better workmen, beater cultivators, and improves their material con• dition. Let it march and march onwards, but let it march in the light of the Gospel. Otherwise all instructed workmen will be discontented, and all ignorant workmen will become paupers. Let not those who pretend to instruct the people take them from the guidance of God, and represent him as a mere sentiment, something useful, perhaps, but not necessary, Not necessary ! Why our God made heaven and earth. It is our God who now multi piies at this very moment teaching orders in France, till I can reckon more than 40 containing 150,000 members. And yet they are not sufficient. And yet we are told that religions teaching is not wanted. To those who tell us so, we may ash, where were sour schools i❑ France when we founded ours ? Have you any in Thibet ? we have ! And then we are taunted with opposing and neglecting the education of females. Instruct them, we do. Instruct them you, also, as much as you like. But, do not make mothers who cannot take care of their children. Napoleon I. said to the mistress of his schools, " Give me mothers who can bring up their children 1" De Maistre said that Christian mothers alone could teach their children to fear God, and not to fear death. In Belgium you have an admirable law on primary schools, which is due to M. Dechamps', ministry in 1862. In France we have been struggling for something like it for the last twentyfive years. I struggle myself for it as much as I can, I try not to insult any adversary, and to be always in the right, but I mu3t say 1 enjoy particularly, leaving nothing to say to my opponents. Not long since an im portant personage insisted upon it to me that we did nothing for girls' schools. I had no answer ready for him at the time; but I made inquiries, and found that out of the 21,000 girls' schools existing in France, 14,000 have been founded, and are di• rected by the Catholic clergy. Oa the other hand, it cannot be denied that the men in power are very busy in that respect, and are applying the public money in founding normal wheels, &c. The Gene ral Council of a department in France has ever proposed a premium for the schoolmasters who should marry schoolmistresses ! I do not know, however, whether they always recollect that women have to be brought up from the interior life of a family; that their chief characteristics should always be self-devotion and modesty. Women of talent are all very well ; but among the popular classes only ask their husbands what they think of them. As for me, I reverence good sahoolmistresses, but my ideal of a girls'.sohool is that in which the image of the blessed Virgin is set before the eyes of the pupils, whose school mistress goes to communion." I have given you thus far the very words of the illustrious orator as far as I could note them. I feel it impossible to abridge the rest of his dis coarse. It seems to me a profanity to attempt it. I find that I am reaching the limits of my present communication, and prefer to end here the specimen I can give you of the matchless and, above all, intrinsic eloquence which riveted us for two hours and a half to the lips of the Right Rev. Academician. An involuntary re• mark was in everyone's mouth who had attended at the previous meeting, and it was for the highest praise that could be bestowed—" Montalembert himself has been distanced." None will acknow ledge it so readily as that truly Christian great man, and there seems no invidiousness whatever in the comparison. On leaving the hall I was quite astonished to find among the crowd an American gentleman, from California, and his wife, who had both come up that very day from Antwerp to hear Mgr. Dupanloup, paying the ticket for the whole of the Congress meetings, to hear that oue great speech ; and who, although they had but an imper fect knowledge of French, were overjoyed at having been present at such an event. In the evening we had, at half-past seven, a most interesting lecture on " Spiritism, Table-turning, and other Spirit Mani festations of the Present Time," by the Chevalier Deglageux Desmousseaus. DZATII OF SIR JOHN RATCLIFF.—BIRMINGHAM, Thursday Evening.—Sir John Itatol;ff died at his resi dence, Wyddrington, at noon to-day, after a few weeks' illness, the immediate cause of death having been diabetes. The deceased was Mayor of this town three times consecu tively, and on the occasion of the Queen's visit to open Aston Psrk he received the honour of knighthood. Ho was for many years engaged in trade in the town, and had realised a large fortune. BRANDING IN THE ARMY,—We understand, Says the Medical Times and Gazette, upon good authority, that his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief has seen fit to issue a circular from the Horse Guards, by which the present very objectionable plan of branding soldiers is removed. When the necessity for marking a soldier occurs, the operation is to be performed by the drum or trumpet-major at the orderly room, in the presence of she adjutant, and under the immediate supervision of a regimental or staff medical officer. This is es it should be, and we congratulate the profession that a medical officer no longer occupies a derogatory and false position, and the Duke of Cambridge that ho has bad the good sense to con cede an alt.eratiou Iyhiett was very urgently required, Disturbances in Syria. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) CONS,TANTINOPLE, AUGUST 24, Disturbances have again broken out in the dis. trict of Payaz, in Syria. Made Bey, son of the caimacam of the district, Mustik Pasha, who was recently arrested by order of the Government, has declared himself in armed revolt. His followers consist of some two thousand mountaineers, well armed and mounted. Their refuge is in au almost inaccessible spot in a gulf on the sea t at stout four hours' distance from the commercial port of Alex andretta, and has been rendered notorious as the scene of the assassination of Mr. Cellin, the American missionary. This rebellious lair commands the roads from Marasch to Alexandretta (Scandaroon), and from Adana to Aleppo. These routes are now quite unsafe, and the commerce from the interior, which comes down to the sea at Alexandretta, the port of Aleppo is vexatiously impeded. Mr. Skene, the British Consul• General at Aleppo, travelling the :other day from Aleppo to Alexandretta, to embark there on his leave of absence had two valuable horses stolen from his escort, although protected by a strong force. These brigands are not wanting in boldness. Even the town of Alex andretta itself, where there is probably never less than 4,000 bales of merchandise waiting for ship. ment or conveyance into the interior, is not free from their marauding incursions, A band of thirty horsemen appeared in the town last week and attacked the premises of M. Derivaux, the local agent of the Russian Steam Navigation Company, but as M. Derivaux rapidly collected his people, and the other European residents hurried to the rescue, the assailing party were driven off. Since then Sureya Pasha, the governor of Aleppo, has, so to speak, garrisoned the town with fifty soldiers. BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS, (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida, Capt. Bevis, with the above mails, arrived this morning. She brings 57 passengers; specie, £9,225, of which amount £1,069 is gold and £8,156 silver; seven packages cf precious stones, pearls, &c., also 547 rolls of tobacco, 100 bags of coffee, 250 barrels of tapioca, 11 cases of ostrich feathers, and 139 packages of samples. The Oneida spoke, on Aug. 12, a steamer showing 3 DP 9,354, steering for Bahia ; on the 20th, la% 16 30 W., long. 25 16 W., steamer Sarana, bound to Brazil; on the 24th, lat. 25 36 N., long. 18 30 W., British ship Hope, from Liverpool to Calcutta ; and in lat. 25 54 N., long. 18 66 W., bark Granville, from London to Mauritius; and on the 31st, lat. 45 38 N., long. 7 35 W., the steamer Gibraltar, steering south. Her Majesty's ships Satellite, Stromboli, Triton, and gunboats Spider and Sheldrake, were at Monte Video; the Egmont, Bombay ; Electi and Curlew were at Rio Janeiro i also the French ship Astree, at Bahia, and the Federal war steamer Wachiselt. BUENOS AYRES, July 27. Congress is still sitting, A bill granting a con cession for the construction of the telegrapiiic line between this city and Monte Video has been passed; ale.° a subsidy of 800 silver dollars per month to a company to build a steamer to navigate the Upper Uruguay,which it is thought will open up the traffic in those distant yet rich parts of the country. One of the most important projects is an English Bank, in Cordora, capital £200,000, with right to emit convertible hank bills for half a million ster- ling, which has been before the Legislature, and expected to meet with little opposition. A project for the construction of floating docks is under consideration, and likely to be passed. The sheep farmers of Buenos Ayres are doing well, the grasses being abundant, and the flocks in superior condition. Business is dull, being winter, and the public en gaged discussing a project for the redemption of the paper money which the Finanee Minister is to introduce into Congress. Specie, which ruled high, has fallen considerably, as the Government pure poses putting a fixed value of 25 paper dollars to the silver dollar. As the Provincial Government of Buenos Ayres has ratified the proposed measure of the National Government, it is believed the bill will pass. The mining interest in San Juan are improving every day, and the wonderful richness of the Go vernment mining district of the Andes beyond doubt. The Great Southern Railway progresses rapidly ; but the Boca and Baracas line gots on slowly. Sales of wool very limited, but a speculation is going on in sheep skins, which have gone up greatly—the current selling price is 3 dols. and 3i doffs. Dry cowhides are weak, salted hides are firm. The prospects of the coming clip are good; the wool will be far superior to last year's. The estimate to be expected the coming season will be from 90,000 to 95,000 bales. I❑ Entre Rios and Santa Fe the wool exports will be considerably in excess of last season. The state of the money market is critical, the very best signatures can only be discounted under 11 mo. Foreign gold abundant. The transactions in exchange for the Oneida have been heavy, amounting to some £130,000 at 49i to per pata con. The Republic of Paraguay continues to progress with marvellous rapidity under the influence of peace and the wise administration of President Lop( z. _ _ The condition of Monte Video is bad, the nego tiations with Flores having failed. Intelligence says the frontier is now invaded by a Brazilian General named Netto, at the head of 2,000 men ; he is said to be fighting on his own account. The President and his Ministers of War are said to be hemmed in at Canelones by the rebel outposts. The latest news held out hopes of an arrangement being made with Flores. Cereoba has again been invaded by the Indian savages, In Reij A all is quiet. Rio JANEIRO, Aug. 9. The coffee market has been more active, and pur chases to the extent of 112,000 bags effected from Bth to 31st ult. A decline of prices may, however, be expected, as supplies are gradually increasing, which average about 4,500 bags per diem. Busi ness since the Ist has been restricted to the sale of 4,560 bags. Stock is 55,000 bags. Superior washed and pulped, 7 300 to 500 per aroba ; superior fine, 7 200 ; superior, 7 000 ; first good, 6 700; and first ordinary, 6 300. Prices.—Sugar declining. Hides no sales, Freights to the Channel, 50s. to 605.; England, 405.; Havre, 50f. and 10 per cent. Exchange, per Oneida, has reached to £400,000 sterling. £60,000 taken by the Government at 27k; the price ranged from 278 to Z. On Paris and Antwerp about 1,800,000 f., chiefly at 347 rees; on Hamburg, 8.M., 500,000 and 660 rees. Dis counts in the banks unaltered at 8 per cent. BAHIA, AUG. 12. Sugar in demand for browns, at 2 700 to 730. Stocks small of whites, no sales. Cotton, 27 500 per arroba. Coffee, no sales of importance. Cocoa, accounts of new crop unfavourable. Hides, dull. Rum unaltered, 75 to 80 per pipe. Tapioca brisk demand at 4 000 to 300 per alqueire. Tobacco sales small; no demand; 2 800 to 3 100 the quotations. Freights to the Channel 42s per ton ; Exchange 271 to on London ;on Paris 347 to 345 per franc, 90 days. PERNAMBUCO, Aug. 14. Sugar entries small. Browns sold at 3 000 per arroba, Paraiba 2 700. Cotton entries 2,000 bags for the fortnight, and from Ist January 59,500 bags against 26,000 last year, corresponding period. Prices rule from 28 000 to 29 500 and 700 per ar robs. Dry salted hides and rum no change. Freights to Liverpool:—Sugar, ballast, 15s to 17s 6d, and cotton to fill up at per lb. Exchange on London, £70,000, at 271 a and 1. A,. kilirturt . 1 .7 A tq HER MAJESTY, BALMORAL, Aug. 31. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High. nesses Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, arrived at Perth at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, and was received by the Lord Provost, the Earl of Mansfield, Viscount Strathallan, Lord Dupplin, Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, &a. At 9.45 her Mhjesty prcceeded to inaugurate the statue creattd by the inhabitants of Perth to the memory of the Prince Consort at the entrance of the North Inch. In the carriage with her Nr_ajesty wore the Duke and Duchess of Saxe•Coburg and Gotha and Princess Helena. In a second cirriage were the Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. The ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite were in other carriages — Lient,-Gen. the Hon. C. Grey, Major-Gen. the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Major:,Gen. Walker, commanding the troops, attending on horseback. Her Majesty was escorted by a squadron of the 15th Hussars, under the command of Capt. Penfold, and was received at the site of the memorial by a guard of honour of the 79th Regiment. The streets were lined by detachments of the Highland Regiments and Volunteers. A prayer having been said, the statue was un• covered, the guard of honour presenting arms, and the artillery posted on the North Inch firing a royal salute. At the termination of the proceedings the Lord Provost received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty. Her Msjcsty, though a good deal fatigued by this great exertion, has not suffered from it, and was much gratified by this mark of respect and ads miration paid by the city of Perth to her beloved Consort. The Queen expressed her high appreciation of the statue itself to Mr Brodie, the sculptor. The Queen then returned to the station, accom panied as before, and at 11 o'clock proceeded on ber jLurney to Balmoral, arriving there at 4.30 p.m. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales received her Majesty at the Castle, and +lined with the Queen last night. The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Provost of Dundee has been apprised by telegraph that the Prince and Princess of Wales will embark at that port for Copenhagen tomor row. The Osborne arrived there on Wednesday, and received coals and stores from the Medusa, which came in on Monday evening. The special train conveying the Prince and Princess is timed to reach Dundee at three o'clock, and it is expected that the small squadron will be under weigh in au hour afterwards. On Saturday their Royal Highnesses, accom panied by the Hon. Mrs. Coke and Lord Hamilton, Major Teesdale, &c., drove to Strathdon, to the seat of Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., of Newe, viewed several of the places of note in the district, return ing by the low road from Strathdon, and through BaHater, reaching the Castle in the evening. On Sunday, the Prince and Princess, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Coke, Lord Hamilton, Major Teesdale, Mr. Wood, and Dr. Robinson, attended public worship at Crathie Church. The Rev. Dr Norman iNPLeod, from Glasgow (who arrived at the Castlo on Saturday afternoon), preached a most instructive and eloquent sermon from St. Luke, 16th chap., 25th verse. The church has not been so full for a long time past. THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.—Sir Charles Locock, who has been commissioned by the Queen to attend upon the Crown Princess of Prussia at her approaching accoucheraent, arrived at Berlin on Monday night. It was intended that Sir Charles should proceed to Potsdam at the end of the present week, and reside in the new palace occu pied by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. THE PRINCESS LOUIS OF HESSE.—The proles. sion will learn with great gratification that Professor Priestley, of King's College, has been appointed to attend the Princess Louis of Hesse at Darmstadt in her approach ing confinement, which is expected to take place about the end of October or the first week of November,—Medical Timm and Gazette. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge left Cambridge Cottage, her residence at Kew, yesterday for Scatborough, where her royal highness intends to resiao for several weeks. The Prince do la Tour d'Auvergne, French Am baasador at London, is at present on a visit to his brother, the Archbishop of Bourges. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has left her residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, for Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Viscount and Lady Blanche Dupplin. Louisa Marchioness of Waterford has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, frori the Continent. The Earl Spencer, es Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, left Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, yesterday for Scotland, to accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales to Uopenhagen and St. Petersburg. The Countess Spencer has gone with the noble carl,and will accompany tho royal party to the Baltic. The Earl Annesley returned to London early in the week from the Continent, and the day following left for Bretby Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield during the Derby races. The Countess de Grey will leave Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, this morning, in order to join their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Dundee. The countess, as lady in waiting to the Princess, will accompany their Royal Highnesses on their northern tour. The Countess of Dalkeith, who arrived in town on Monday last from Tunbridge 'Wells, left yesterday with her children for Drumlanrig Castle, N. 8., one of the seats of the Duke of Buccleuch in Scotland. Lord and Lady Arundell of Wardour have left Brown's Hotel, Dover-street. Lady Hermoine Graham mail family will leave the Duke of Somerset's official residence at the Admiralty to-morrow for Netherby Park, Cumberland. The Hon. Mrs. H. Pakenhani and the Misses Pakenham have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Sir Fitzroy Kelly arrived at Paris a few days since on his return to England from Swifzerland. SHEERNESS.—The new Catholic church at Sheer ness was on W^dnesday consecrated by the Rev. Dr Grant, who was attended by many of his clergy. The church ig said to be a great success, both in design, cost, and execution s and was much admired by all present. The solemn opening. takes place on the 14th instant. INSTALLATION OF THE DEAN OF LINCOLN.---. The Very Rev. Dr. J. A. Jeremie, Regius Profes sor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, has just been installed into the deanery of Lincoln, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Very Rev. Dr. Francis Jenne to• the biehopric of Peterborough. In an address presented to the new dean by the canons, the prebendaries, and others, they expressed their satisfaction that the advisers of the Queen had selected from among the members of the cat he dral itself a clergyman so distinguished—one whose attain-. ments as a theologian had gained for him the first position. as a professor of sacred theology in the University of Cam bridge, and whose lectures from the professorial chair must have been eminently usetul to the theological students— one whose character both in public and private had been marked by Christian truthfulness and Christian gentleness —one w h o se persuasive eloquence, whenever it is employed in enforcing the lessons of the gospel from the pulpit, is highly apppreciated. The dean in acknowledging the cow. pliment, said his connection with Lincoln went back into the distant past. It began more than 30 pars ago, when the responsible office of.examining chaplain was cutA ferred upon a ;prelate (Dr. Kayo), whose mild virtues still lived in their memory. Some years afterwards he was admitted to a prebendal stall, and 1G years had elapsed since ho became closely united to the chapter through the office of sub.c.'ean and canon. The new dean, after the Queen's letters patent had been read, was invested by the precentor in the usual manner, and formally conducted to his stall. The first duty of the new dean was the justalla. tion of the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, M.A., rector of Iydd St, Mary, forraerly vicar of St. Martin's-in - flic - Fields) Lor don, as his successor in the sub-deanery. THE CHAIR OF LOGTC IN GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. —We understand! that the Queen in Council has now con firmed the resignation of the Chair of Logic in Glasgow University by Professor Robert Buchanan, who retires into private life after an honourable and useful public career of 4U years. The election of his successor by the University Court is expected to take place about the rnidffle of S,pt,,,re ber,—As'cotwian,